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Robert Malenka is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who studies brain circuits and disorders. He is the Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Deputy Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, and a member of several academic and scientific organizations.
Robert Malenka is a renowned neuroscientist and psychiatrist who studies the molecular and circuit mechanisms of brain disorders. He is the Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Nancy Pritzker Laboratory, and Deputy Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University.
Robert Malenka, MD, PhD. The Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor in Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences has won the 2024 Steven C. Beering Award from the Indiana University School of Medicine. Malenka is being recognized for the "field-changing implications his work has had — and will continue to have — in biomedical sciences."
Robert C. Malenka (born June 21, 1955) is a Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is also the director of the Nancy Friend Pritzker Laboratory in the Stanford Medical Center. [1]
- In the 1980s and 1990s you did groundbreaking research on a phenomenon called “synaptic plasticity.” What’s synaptic plasticity, and what role does it play in human learning, memory, behavior and habit formation?
- In the 2000s and 2010s you started studying pathways in the brain collectively called the reward system. What’s that, what’s its evolutionary purpose and how does it lead us astray?
- Do other psychiatric disorders besides addiction involve glitches in the brain’s reward system?
- Most recently, you’ve been exploring the therapeutic potential of certain psychedelic drugs that are banned because of their addictive or other worrisome properties.
Robert C Malenka is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and a researcher on neural communication and brain disorders. He is the deputy director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and a member of several academic and scientific organizations.
Feb 28, 2024 · Dr. Robert C. Malenka is the Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. Malenka is a world leader in elucidating the mechanisms underlying the action of neurotransmitters in the mammalian brain and the molecular mechanisms by which neural circuits are reorganized by experience.
